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Article: On the Lost Highway; Cormac McCarthy sends a father and son on the scariest road trip he can imagine. Seat belts fastened?
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- Article date:
- October 2, 2006
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Byline: Malcolm Jones
For a more than decent summary of the plot of Cormac McCarthy's latest novel, "The Road," consult the Library of Congress boilerplate that follows the book's title page: "1. Fathers and sons--Fiction. 2. Voyages and travels--United States--Fiction. 3. Regression (Civilization)--Fiction. 4. Survival skills--Fiction." For that matter, it's not a bad imitation of the novel's style. Using the stripped-down prose that he employed so effectively in his last book, "No Country for Old Men," McCarthy spins an entire novel around two people, a father and his young son fighting their way through a post-apocalyptic world reduced to cold ashes and ...
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... ... for the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction, the oldest UK literary award. Cormac McCarthy, a Pulitzer Prize-winning US author ... The James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction has been awarded by the University of Edinburgh ...
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